Year 14 • No. 20 Sunday, August 10, 2014 T he aratoga Saratoga’s Daily Newspaper on Thoroughbred Racing No Hiding Seek Again blazes to Fourstardave tally Tod Marks Tod Data Link WAR FRONT – DATABASE, by KNOW N FACT Grade 1 SW by WAR FRONT ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Won Graded Stakes Coast to Coast Keeneland’s Maker’s 46 Mile-G1 • Monmouth S. G2-(NCR) • Citation H.-G2, etc. Post Office Box 150 Paris, Kentucky 40362-0150 Tel.(859) 233-4252 Fax 987-0008 claibornefarm.com INQUIRIES TO BERNIE SAMS e-mail: [email protected] © BILL DENVER / EQUI-PHOTO 2 14-0555.CLB.DataLink.SarSp.Aug10.indd 1 The Saratoga Special Sunday, August8/8/14 10, 9:46 2014 AM here&there... at Saratoga NAMES OF THE DAY Thank You, first race. The 2-year-old is by Congrats out of Actceptional. Hyman Roth, 11th race. The 4-year-old, named for a character in The Godfather Part II, is by Street Boss. BY THE NUMBERS A Jillion: Riding titles won by Alex Solis before he came to Southern California, according to presenter Chris McCarron. 1: Parrot in car on backstretch Saturday morning. 900,000,000: Highest price value on the computer operator’s screen at Fasig-Tipton. 4: Brook Ledge vans at the Landmark Motor Inn in Fort Edward Friday morning. 0: Speed clocks on Marion Place now that Saratoga Police Department moved it late Sunday afternoon. Several Saratoga Special bicycle jockeys are crushed, and severely lacking in mid- night entertainment. LICENSE PLATES OF THE DAY EASYGOER – New York. Also a tasty sandwich at the Spring Street Deli. Connie Bush GOTPOLO – New York. You don’t want to mess with this assistant starter. DAR6941 Saratoga Special Girolamo 10 AUG14 08/08/2014 14:25 Page 1 Beware, Jockeys. Vosburgh hero and A.P. Indy’s outstanding speed horse. From the legendary La Troienne tribe: his half-sister is Super Saver’s dam. First yearlings selling now at Fasig-Tipton NY-Bred Preferred Girolamo? Fantastico! GIROLAMO A.P. Indy – Get Lucky (Mr. Prospector) 859-255-8537 www.darleyamerica.com Darley Sunday, August 10, 2014 The Saratoga Special 3 here&there... at Saratoga “I nicknamed her pothead because she looks like she just “Might only be one Rollie Fingers T-shirt left in the country.” WORTH REPEATING smoked a joint, her eyes are about half-closed all the time and Assistant Laird George, reading By the Numbers Saturday “Eventully they’ll get on the same page and it’ll come. It’s really nothing bothers her.” that listed one Fingers jersey at the Hall of Fame ceremony hard to get something like that done.” Trainer Leah Gyarmati about Hall of Fame trainer Gary Jones, Adirondack contender Wonder Gal “It just does that.” on uniform medication rules in racing The Special’s Anne Clancy, “A has been and a still is.” when asked to stop slamming the door “It was fun. I’m glad it’s over, but it was fun. That’s a heavy deal Comment as retired steeplechase jockey Sean Clancy inter- to put on you.” viewed four-time champion jockey Paddy Young “Both of us do that.” Jones, on making a Hall of Fame acceptance speech The Special’s Miles Clancy, “Just once.” slamming the door minutes after his mother “You want white knuckles, get in a car with him someday.” Tyler Wolbert, when relaying that Chris McCarron, about the hard-driving Jones The Special (Sean Clancy) called Winter Game “This is my 11th annual trek here to a place where I am truly on by the name Winter Dawn in a Friday article vacation. The Harvey Pack days at Siro’s are gone, Tom Durkin “He’s a real racetracker.” will soon be gone, but The Special (and Uncommon Grounds) Hall of Fame trainer Nick Zito’s description of announcer “The mistakes are just part of it. We’re OK with mistakes.” thankfully live on.” Tom Durkin in a tribute video at the Hall of Fame. Reader, as the mistake was pointed out Reader Ken Stewart about The Special “That’s not an announcement, I don’t think.” “Is that a Pennsylvania-bred?” “Churchill Downs.” Ed Bowen, who in inadvertently put Overheard at the New York-bred sale Name on the back of jockey Corey Lanerie’s jockey Edgar Prado in the trainer category at Fasig-Tipton (submitted by Willow Creek Farm) golf cart (they wanted him to feel at home) QUOTE OF THE DAY “But I had this rare feeling of euphoria that it was going to be all right.” Barbara Banke, after hearing opinions against Curlin’s chances in the 2007 Breeders’ Cup at a hotel handicapping seminar 800-523-8143 Connie Bush Water Water Everywhere. Like Caroline Street, there are plenty of places to drink on the backside. HIP 458 – FASIG-TIPTON SUNDAY 8/10 Half-sister to MARRIEDTOTHEMUSIC, stakes winner of 7 of 11 starts, earner of $306,391. MARRIEDTOTHEMUSIC’S dazzling displays of speed in 2014 include: 125 Equibase # (highest sprint # in North America in 2014 is a 126) 101 and 99 Beyer Speed Figures • .03 off Aqueduct track record win Pointing to graded stakes at Belmont Fall meet Classy physical by freshman sire Marsh Side. Vinery Sales/Barn 9 4 The Saratoga Special Sunday, August 10, 2014 Sunday,LE-14307-General-All-Saratoga August 10, Special 2014 FP-July 31.indd 1 The Saratoga Special 7/31/14 10:28 AM5 here&there... at Saratoga WORTH REPEATING “There would be three of us sitting on our bikes in the back of the van, so they wouldn’t fall over and crash into each other.” Valet Tony Millan, describing travel arrangements when he and two friends rode motocross as kids “We are trying very hard to get the Chief to Saratoga for Travers Week.” Assistant Fernando Abreu, about trying to get Hall of Fame trainer Allen Jerkens to Saratoga “We want to thank you for introducing us to all of those famous and beautiful celebrities. I refer to Wise Dan, Sweet Reason and their colleagues.” Racing fan Kathy Roome, after meeting a few stars Wednesday morning “I wouldn’t have that plan right now if it was the synthetic. So that’s one reason why that’s the direction I’m going.” Trainer Bret Calhoun, who plans to run Fiftyshadesofgold in the Grade 3 Dogwood Sept. 20 at Churchill as a prep for the Grade 2 Raven Run Oct. 18 at Keeneland “It’s a little chilly and she doesn’t have a hard top.” Trainer Colum O’Brien, riding by on a horse “Can I get a medium-rare egg?” Patron at Fasig-Tipton snack bar Saturday; we think we know what that is. Elizabeth Collins, wife of The Special’s Tom Law and famous backyard chicken owner: “The worst thing I ever did was feed those birds by hand.” Tod Marks The Special’s Sean Clancy: “If that’s the worst thing you’ve done, you’re not Charades? Riley Mott (left) and Neil Poznansky explain how Seek Again did it in the Fourstardave. living. You need to get out more.” We think that’s what they were doing anyway. Storm Cat - She’s a Winner, by A.P. Indy A stallion standing at • 5384 Route 9h/23, Hudson, NY, 12534 6 The Saratoga Special Sunday, August 10, 2014 Broken Vow Alternation the Pin Oak STALLIONS Cowboy Cal Alternation by Distorted Humor Multiple GSW, Millionaire 1st Foals in 2015 Sky Classic Broken Vow by Unbridled 21 Stakes Horses 2014 2YOs Up to $375,000 Cowboy Cal by Giant’s Causeway Top 10 2nd Crop Sire $550,000 FTK July 2014 Sale Topper Sky Classic by Nijinsky II 17% Stakes Horses 59 Stakes Winners • 6 Champions Pin Oak Stud Versailles, Kentucky • pinoakstud.com Inquiries to Clifford Barry or Nancy Stephens (859) 873-1420 Sunday, August 10, 2014 The Saratoga Special 7 The aratoga Yearlings To Perform 112 Spring Street, Suite 109 for Racing and Sales Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Phones (859) 312-3414 | kirkwoodstables.com Sean Clancy Mobile: (302) 545-7713 of the day Joe Clancy Mobile: (302) 545-4424 Tom Law Mobile: (859) 396-9407 E-mail: [email protected] joe @thisishorseracing.com [email protected] www.thisishorseracing.com Published Wednesday through Sunday during the racing season. Every day of Sales Week Aug. 4-10. The Staff Editors/Publishers: Sean Clancy, Joe Clancy Managing Editor: Tom Law Not everyone watches horses Staff Writers: Kristin Brennan, Katelyn Brush, Ashley Dingeman, Jackie Dugas, Ryan Jones, Photo by Connie Bush Dan McDonough, Dan Tordjman Layout/Design: Katherine Lasak Photographers: The Chief . .Day 20 Tod Marks, Dave Harmon, Connie Bush Handicappers: Charles Bedard, Gaile Fitzgerald, Tom Law, “Train Robber. His mother came and said, ‘That boy, Willie Capers, where is he?’ I said, ‘Willie Capers, I John Shapazian, Chad Summers don’t have no Willie Capers.’ She said, ‘You know the boy they call Train Robber.’ I said, ‘Oh, Train.’ Chief Head Honcho of Circulation: I asked him one day, ‘How you’d get the name, Train Robber?’ He said, ‘Here’s what hap- Jack Clancy pened. When I was a little boy, coach was making the lines on the baseball field and he run out of lime, so he give us 35 cents to go to the feed store to get the lime. We knew Help When We Need It: on the train tracks where the lime came in, so we stole the bag of lime.’ That’s where Nolan Clancy, Ryan Clancy, Miles Clancy. he got the name.” – Trainer Allen Jerkens The Saratoga Special thisishorseracing.com Thoroughbred Racing Calendar The Best of The Saratoga Special Call us about your editorial needs.